10 MISTAKES YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE WHEN IN GERMANY
Вставка
- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- It’s inevitable. There are some mistakes that we as immigrants, expats, and tourists are all going to make when we come to Germany. Here are just 10 of those that I experienced in my first days/months of moving here!
I also mention the importance of liability insurance, you can check out GetSafe, an awesome English liability insurance provider in Germany: bit.ly/getsafe-liability
For more tips & Expat stories, don’t forget to [SUBSCRIBE]: bit.ly/life-in-germany
Follow me on Instagram for more: / lifeingermany_ and / lifeindus
---------------------
MOVING TO GERMANY? Get your FREE step-by-step checklist here ➡️ lifeingermany.com/checklist/
AND JOIN US IN THE [Life in Germany Welcome Program] ➡️ www.lifeingermany.com
QUESTIONS? hello@lifeingermany.com
#expats #germany #lifeingermany #expatsingermany #expattips
---------------------
MY TIPS FOR LIVING IN GERMANY ✅
💵 My Bank: bit.ly/3JczUH7
📱My Phone Plan: bit.ly/3ykBSPr
💡My Electricity Plan: bit.ly/3J5idcp
🏠My Liability & Contents Insurance: bit.ly/42Plnsr
🏥 My Health Insurance: bit.ly/306x1jZ
📚How I Learn German: bit.ly/3XtuwmL
DISCLAIMER: Links included in my descriptions are sometimes affiliate links. If you purchase a product or service with the links that I provide, I may receive a small commission - which helps me continue to build the platform & community. There is no additional charge to you!
---------------------
Small correction: If you're inviting friends into a restaurant to celebrate your birthday your friends won't actually expect you to pay everything, because depending on a restaurant the bill could get very big. Instead it's more common to only pay the drinks / beverages and make your friends pay their meals.
No, it depends on the setting. All the times I got invited to a birthday dinner in Germany the host paid everything. Maybe the selection of drinks was restricted before hand.
Simply answer the phone saying: "Davis". You don't have to state: "Hallo, Fr. Davis." German efficiency! haha
Many people get nervous when you answer the phone with a long phrase, because they want to speak NOW! :D Just say your family name
Your intuition is right. Answering the phone with "Frau Davis" is actually weird. ;) You would usually say: "Guten Tag, Davis hier" or slightly less formally: "Hallo, Davis hier" or even less formally just: "Davis?". I personally made it a habit, though, to answer just with: "Hallo?" when an unknown number is calling, just to be cautious. That's kind of awkward and not very nice, though.
I answer with: "Ja" or my surname.
I never answer a call with my name. If the caller want to speak with me, he can ask if it's me, if not, he doesn't need to know my name
I like your videos a lot 😊 Just a little addition:
- answering the phone: it's a matter from pre-mobile-phone times. When you are calling Jenna's mobile phone you expect Jenna to answer so in fact there is no need to say 'Hello, Jenna here'. But when you were calling a non-mobile-phone back in the old days you did not know if it is Jenna, Jenna's mother in law, Jenna's sister in law or whoever is answering. As Germans still love the old times we still answer the phone as we did 30 years ago 😅
One also didn't know if one had got the correct number. So possible misunderstandings or misconnections could be cleared very quickly. My father always answered with phone number + last name and claimed that the really officially correct way would be to state the area as well (e..g "Neustadt 34567 Mustermann am Apparat") but he didn't go that far. One was also taught to correctly behave when answering the phone at someone else's place, like "Schmidt bei Meier" and businesses would say something like "Eisenwaren Schmidt, Meier am Apparat". Quaint second millenium AD!
Nevertheless in the same pre-mobile times other countries did already have the habit of only answering with "Hello", "yes" or "Diga" and expect the caller to first identify himself. A friend of mine said that it was only courtesy that the "intruding" caller should first state his name before the answering person did.
@@bartolo498 When we travelled through China I noticed what the Chinese say when answering the phone. So one day the tour guide called my room in the hotel to answer a request by me. Therefore I knew it was him. So I picked up the phone and said "Whey?" He was totally perplexed to hear a Chinese style of answer and had to ask whether it was really me on the phone.
Weird thing: I never say my name precisely because this is my phone, and *nobody* other than me will answer it. And people always ask me who I am, or if I am Mr. Erhard.
@ You can always answer: "No, it is _my alter ego_ speaking."
Hello Jenna, welcome to Germany! I really love how you introduce yourself as an 'international'. Today's world is more and more becoming a 'village' where nationalities should become secondary. A great task, because keeping your 'native' identity' and also adapting to a new environment is a challenge.
Germany needs people like you, people from the outside of the Germany who adapt to OUR way of living without loosing their own background.
About "floor counting". We are not counting a different floor. We count a different thing. In North America you count floors (1st, 2nd...) In Germany/parts of continental Europe we count "Obergeschosse" (Floors above groundfloor). So it is obviously and logically GF, 1st OG (1st floor above groundfloor), 2nd OG..... . But most time, to keep it short, the "Ober" disappears and it remains as "1. Geschoss".
Erdgeschoss = 1. Etage
1. Obergeschoss = 2. Etage
2. Obergeschoss = 3. Etage
Etage wird seltener genutzt, aber es existiert ^^
I am a German and I am here to learn the customs of the other side of the ocean 🤣 the differences are interesting. You have a nice and friendly personality presenting them 🙂
# 1: In French its called "rez de chaussée". In Germany its called "parterre", in French it means on the floor, equal to ground level, but people adopted it from the French times, 1806 - 1813.
I don't belong to your target group, but I always find it interesting to hear your observations and experiences about things from everyday life here in Germany. I always notice things that I otherwise take for granted and no longer question. Quite entertaining, thanks for that.
What is the difference between beer in America and beer in Germany? Seriously? Beer in Germany is brewed from barley, hop and spring water and sold in barrels or bottels. Beer in America is made from filtrated dishwashing water and sold in aluminum cans.
How do you get alcohol into the dishwashing water in the first place?
When it comes to the floor names, the thing is: the long translation of the German word means 1. upper floor.
That‘s why shorted the term 1. is an American 2. floor
It's also a regional thing IIRC. Whenever (and that never really happens) I have to give a floor number, I make sure to say "erstes Obergeschoss" because that is *always* correct.
@ True. I was so confused when I first moved to East Germany because they'd habitually state which Obergeschoss they lived in and that meant absolutely nothing to me. To add further confusion, the house I was living in had a flight of stairs leading up to the first storey of flats.
For the longest time, I was confused whether this first storey of apartments was considered the ground floor or the 1. OG, so I always checked the names on the doorbells to make sure was had arrived at my flat. :D
@@SomethingStupide "Hochparterre" ("high ground floor") *is* confusing.
These facts are all SO true and important!😀😀 Thank you very much!
With an early birthday wish have I also a painful memory.😅😅
Hi Jenna :D I just moved here from Tokyo, Japan and your video helps me a lot ☺️ and I love your energy! thanks for all the tips 🥰
Great Video, these are definitely some common mistakes that new comers make!
Hello Jenna, (this is my second video) It is very cool that you are sharing your experiences so that others will learn from them. I so can't wait to be able to travel to Germany again. :) :).
Very interesting topic
Beer at the Oktoberfest is a lot stronger than normal beer you would buy at a grocery or normal restaurant, it's a special brew for the Oktoberfest.
The same reason we wish a Happy New Year after twelve o'clock 🥂, so before twelve o'clock we just say, "Guten Rutsch"!!
If you send a post card or a package to Vienna and someone life's in a bigger house, you need the beside of the city, the street and the house number also the number of the door and sometimes the number of the stairs, so you write the street, house 8/ stair 6/ door 22 for example, because there is no name at the doorbell only the number.
Ireland has the same system as North America, I lived there for a while. I had the same issues at beginning.
The private liability insurance is not recommended because you might ruin somebody's shirt. It's more to prevent being liable for big damage. Just imagine a short circuit in an electrical appliance (or the battery of your smartphone) which starts a fire. This can happen easily and the damage this causes can be several 100.000 €. Nobody would want to pay this kind of damage out of their own pocket.
You’re right! Though, I wanted to use a silly example so people are aware that if you damage someone’s nice jacket, then it’s also covered. Not just the unforeseen and unfortunate circumstances like causing 100,000€+ damage due to a fire. Both are perfect examples. 🙃
Am Australian. The ground floor is the ground floor.
The dark master is from hell.
The ground floor is lava. Proof : ua-cam.com/video/A1D5B_qFv1I/v-deo.html
Ein wichtiges Thema. Man haftet mit dem aktuellen und zukünftigen Vermögen unbegrenzt. Deshalb haben die meisten Anbieter inzwischen eine Standardversichrrungssumme von 100 Mio.
Aber 30 Mio. ist erst einmal besser als nichts.
An easier way to remember the floor thing is to refer to them as „Obergeschoss“ (upper floor). „Etage“, „Stock“ or „Geschoss“ are a bit more common but „Obergeschoss“ is possible too (why do we have so many words for it? I only now realize lol). When the hotel guy tells you: „Ihre Wohnung ist im ersten Stock“ (your room is on the first floor), just remember „Obergeschoss“ and it is clear that does not mean the ground floor
Nice
Hi Jenna, you misunderstood something about birthday. Giving gifts in advance is not the point. It's about sending someone good wishes before their birthday.
Yes, that’s true! Though I’ve also been told many times to wait and give them the gifts later too - I think many people combine “wishes” and “gifts” in the same category sometimes!
@@lifeingermany_ Yes, we are strange people ;-)
@@manfredhaack8199 hahaha but also lovely! 🥰
I actually found Klarna to be pretty convenient as they remind you via e-mail several times that your bill is due or will be due and they even offer to direct debit the amount from your bank account if you order them to.
I wish I had of got those email reminders 🙈 maybe it’s better than it was when I first used them (almost 5 years ago now I think)! Sounds better!
@@lifeingermany_ My sister refuses to pay for things she orders online BEFORE she actually get them... so Klarna is perfect for this. Didn't get the package? Then you didn't get the bill either. No loss.
The phone situation has changed long ago (40 years), for me at least. I always say "Hello" or "Ja, bitte?" when answering the phone. I see it as the duty of the caller to introduce himself. He/she has called my number and should know who to expect while I have no cluse who's calling. So it's definitely on them to say their name first. And any attempt to ask me, without introducing themselves first, will either end the call on my side or be countered with a request to reveal their identity. They are not entitled to any information from me before they have done their part. I had oodles of calls where the other person just hang up when I said my name. To avoid that I have long since changed my routine.
I like this approach MUCH MUCH better! I still haven’t personally met any Germans on the other end of the phone call so don’t mention their name... so I think it’s still very common to say your name... I really don’t like it though!!
I’ve watched a lot of your videos already. I’m a German that moved to the Canadian prairies in 2003. I love your videos because I can relate to both the German and the Canadian.
I visited Germany after not having been there in over 10 years and when I went out to eat with a friend, the restaurant didn’t take credit card (which was my first “what?!” moment, like common it’s the 21st century 😉). I ended up paying cash, but forgot to say “make it €50” (rounding up the cost to leave a tip) because I was so used to just leaving some cash at the table for the waiter to come back when they clear the table and collect, like it is done where I’m living in Canada. I felt so bad and embarrassed, but I honestly didn’t remember that is how it’s done in Germany 😬 so even as a German (who granted hasn’t lived there for a long time) you can make mistakes while in Germany
Hhaha I have the exact same problems in reverse 🤣🤣 totally understand what you mean!!
12:00 don't worry, i live in Munich and during the Oktoberfest puking people are a part of the city :D That's why i go to vacation during Oktoberfest :-)
The Oktoberfest-Beer is stronger than the regular beer.
Post its a short o. It stems from "posta" Wegpunkt, Station.
Im from Germany and never heard of Klarna. Maybe its just on some specific Websites. When you begann talking on the subject i thought you were gonna refering to "Nachnahme"
07:54ff: I had the very opposite problem on a Kurztrip to Amsterdam: I had cash but in a restaurant where we ate they _only_ took credit cards. Fortunately they accepted the cash anyway.
In my company NOBODY know my birthday!! I never had to bring cake or whatever! ;-))))
Hahaha so that’s the secret! 😏
Born and raised in germany and the birthday thing never made sense to me 😐
That's why I usually won't have a birthday party and won't invite poeple over. But they still think they need to come over, bEcAuSe it'S My BiRthDay ...
Sweet series, thanks for sharing 🌻
regarding the how to answer the phone part;
I actually don't know any Germans who pick up their phone and say "hallo hier ist frau Davis " or just "frau Davis". In the older generations it is normal to answer with the last name of the house hold, so only "Davis". In the younger generations the most common greeting /picking up the phone is the same as in your home country, just "hallo?" , so you can just go back to your normal way and no one will think it's not polite or not the right way or sth.
"hallo?" is totally normal 🌻
on your privat phone at least.
On most work phones it's is normal to say the corporation, the full name and to great the calling person /asking how they can help, so sth like "Stadtwerke Düsseldorf, Sandra Müller hier, was kann ich für sie tun?"
Nice video again, Jenna. I don't even think about many of these things anymore.
About the insurance topic...it can be really really expensive if you harm a human in some serious way. And it can happen so fast. So it's better to have it
One last question....what is a Bierstein/ Beer Stein...I've heard it before in some other videos of americans. I think nobody in germany calls them that.
Haha Germans probably don’t call it a Bierstein because they just call it a beer glass! It’s normal in Germany... but in North America we don’t have this big Oktoberfest (half litre or full litre) glasses! It’s a novelty for us hah!!
And you’re right about insurance! I’m glad I learned my lesson faster than some!
It must be the "Bierkrug", made of (not exactly, but whatever...) stone, in former times in Southern Germany - they were shown in (popular??) US-movies like these back then - ua-cam.com/video/OI3Bcgh4Jko/v-deo.html I agree, no German of today knows what the term "Stein" refers to.
@@SiK8309 They (der Bierkrug) are (or where) made of Steingut, a sort of Ceramik. I think, that is what "Stein" referres to.
If you got a day of on your birthday, don't ever think you won't have to bring in cake or sweets! Co-workers WILL remind you, that you didn't bring in a cake yet, even if you haven't been to the office for about 2 months!
But how did you get a phone number that long? Ok, I mean, I don't even get one, because I'm only using mobile since I live alone. But back at my parents' house, we got a phone number with 5 digits (excluding the area code of 4 digits).
😂😂😂 i live here for 18 years and also still make the mistskes with the presents or prepare my birthday party before is my actually birthday! still amaze me. In Spain is also not a problem at all and not possible to pay with a credit card makes me nuts! although I live herr for a long time....
Phone number: Here you have an area code too. It is from two to four digits with a leading zero. (Düsseldorf 0211) Then mostly seven digits. Except you have ISDN service or have a PABX in the office. Then there are to additional numbers (and lines) of greater length.
😝 right?! Sooo long!
Please make a video on schools for kids in germany whose native language is english.. will it be easy or super tough for them
Great idea!!!
Don't worry: People from mail or parcel service are really able to decypher an address even if you switch street name and number ;-).
One would think 🤣 they’ve mixed it up once or twice when my mom writes it the wrong way from Canada to Germany 🙈 just depends on the delivery person I guess haha
Hi Jenna, I love your content! 😃
A question that came to my mind is: What do Canadians do when they spill coffee on someone's laptop or down another person's camera equipment in a river??? I can't imagine the usual response from that other person is: "Oh, it's fine, don't worry about it"! 🤣
I am from Russia and we have similar thing about birthday greetings and presents before actual birthday. Recently my father and sister had their birthdays. Sister's birthday is at October 10th and father's is at 11th. We live separatly, so I visited them at 10th and gave them both presents. I wanted to see their reaction, when they will unpack it. My sister opened hers, but my father kept his present till next day, and I asked my sister to take a video when our father will open the present. So she took it and sent to me. So yes, he took a present one day earlier, as he knew that it is no chance I will visit him next day (we live not next to each other), BUT he never opened his present a day earlier! )) Although, not everyone is such superstitious.
Answering the telephone depends on the person who calls. At work you say your name, maybe your function/position/bureau. If you answer a incoming unknown call on your private smartphone many germans only say "Hallo? " Older people answer with their name only "Müller" for example. And if you know the person there is no rule. If my family calls I often only say "Hallöchen" or "Ja?" or directly "Na du? Alles gut?". I sometimes make also some fun by saying "Na gibts dich auch noch?" ;) So there is no rule, its more like your own way of communication with friends and family 😊
Insurance is really important, but the example with the tshirt is too cheap (people dont want this bureaucracy because of a 25 Eur Tshirt). But if you damage an expensive bag for example the people often use it. And its true, I dont know any german who doesnt have this insurance 😅 we also have a dog-insurance because he could run away/get lost and run in front of a car, building an accident and so on. In Germany you have to pay for it. Some people also have a liability insurance for their job 😁
We developed a standing joke by answering with "Hase". We followed at the time a radio play for kids where the sparrow mother asked her husband all the time: "Hase gesehen?" So we picked that up and used it. We had a habit of regularly calling each other at certain times in the evening. So expecting those in on the joke on the phone made us routinely answer in that way. One day a close friend without that knowledge called. And as usual my Mom picked up the phone with the line: "Hase". Totally embarrassed the caller said: "Oh, excuse me, my fault, dialed the wrong number!" and hang up. Only to call a few moments later, trying our number again. This time, in the know who was calling, my Mom answered in the normal way with her name. But she never cleared up the confusion on the caller's side.
In Canada you also have a lot of insurance and they are much more expensive than in Germany. Germany is way more affordable on that subject.
Exactly! Crazy, huh?! Which is why not many Canadians have it, but soooo many Germans do!
If you ever go to Italy , the CreditCard situation is "worse" ! Why ? 1) To avoid tracks in paper 2) for small business it is to expensive to have card reader + commissions
Have you mentioned the problem with handwritten 1 and 7?
I didn’t! But that’s a great one actually!!!
@@lifeingermany_ It's a constant struggle..
Puha! Geschafft! Ich habe alles verstanden. Aber ich musste mich seeeehr konzentrieren, denn du sprichst unglaublich schnell.
Übrigens, Kreditkarten kann man in Deutschland grundsätzlich zuhause lassen. Ich kann mich nicht erinnern, wann ich die zuletzt außerhalb des Hauses verwendet habe. Eigentlich nur für online shopping.
Hauptsache du hast deine ECkarte dabei. Mit der wird normalerweise bezahlt.
Also ich persönlich kenne nicht einmal jemanden, der eine Kreditkarte hat. Ehrlich gesagt verstehe ich auch nicht so richtig den Sinn dahinter. Schließlich hat man doch normalerweise eine Bankkarte.
I would say, the birthday wishes before the birthday is a bit overdramatized in most videos/blogs. It may depend on the region of Germany but the superstitious part is mostly forgotten and it has more to do with expectations/norms (I only learned about the superstition in Expad videos).
It would still feel unusual/weird, if someone gratulates me before my birthday but it definitely would not offend or bother me.
So don't sweat to much over it.
phone-N° "trick" : save all numbers with national-code , in this way 1) you avoid dealing mistakes 2) you're reachable even in other countries (at least EU)
I'm German and I've never heard of "Klarna". 😅
The reason why saying your nam is, same one might calling the wrong number. With saying your name, the caller instantly knows if he has dialed the right number.
Today it might not that necessarily, but in times no mobile phones existed and families had more members or with shared telephones, you couldn't always tell, if you dialed right.
Also, it might be, you want to call someone you don't know. So, if you say your name, the one you called never could figure out, that you really wanted to talk to him/her. But if he/her says the name, you can, because it is another name than you expected.
So, instead of needing figuring out if the caller dialed the right number, just say your name, that's shorter.
Ich bin Deutscher mit deutscher Sozialisation und auch ich finde es merkwürdig, warum das 'Geburtstagskind' immer alles ausrichten soll. Das fühlt sich einfach falsch an...
Tja, weil du Geburtstag hast. Wer Geschenke will, muss dafür alle einladen, bekochen, bespaßen... willst du etwas, musst du dafür auch arbeiten, that's the German way :D
Totaler Schwachsinn btw, deshalb veranstalte ich auch nie irgendwelche Geburtstagsfeiern
@@dominichendriks8000 Typisch Deutsch ist dieses bilanzieren und aufwiegen
How long have you been in Germany to know all this?
00:23 since 2014
Yep!! Almost 7 years 🤯😝
@@lifeingermany_ how coincidental; I arrived Germany in November 2014! Started my own channel 4 months ago where I help people with vital information based on my experience studying, working and living here 😊😊
@@OfficialJapa.Travel ahh very cool! I’ve just subscribed and look forward to watching your videos too! 🤩
@@lifeingermany_ thanks a lot! I appreciate it 🤗🤗
Why don't you answer on the phone as "Jenna Davis". This is quite common in Germany. Love your "vielen lieben Dank und bis später" ;-)
12 numbers in your phone number? Maybe in big cities. I live here for over 45 years and I never ever hat sich a long number. My first phone number only had 4 numbers after the local code and I remember relatives in a very small village having only 3(!!!).
Looking up and to the right is your tell. Be truthful. No one ever mentions insurance in Germany, but in traffic and work related injuries, and in case of natural disasters. That is it.
BTW : a Kajak is NOT a Canoa !
didnt know the birthday thing, was about superstition was this big. In my experience it is seen as rude af. like: you're to lazy to wait, and dont care enough. its a sign of less appreciation.. It is offending. thats how it is seen in my community in germany. I think the superstition thinking is way more common in southern Germany as in the north.
Omg the Haftpflicht insurance thing was totally a weird concept for me to wrap my head around when I first moved here. But Germany's a very litigious culture and people sue each other like crazy, kind of like the States. It's really sad but you can't say "sorry" just to be polite or take responsibility for anything because then you are always on the hook for it financially. That often ends up creating a society where people end up blaming others for things that might not even be anyone's fault in particular, it's kind of dangerous!
If you do not damage someones else property you can not be sued.
If you damage things you have to pay for - in every society, for sure.
Those are the basic principles of law developed in 20 centuries since the roman empire.
But if you as a pedestrian ignore a red light and cross the street then of cause any damage from other traffic participants have to be paid. Basic principle of who had cause what ...
If you break something that belongs to another person, of course you pay for it! That's decency! And that's why we have the insurance. So if we break something we can't pay for, the other person doesn't have to pay for our faults! And the blaming game is played by Americans far better than by Germans! I just say: "Caution, beverage can be hot!"
Really? Never happened to me, so I am either a lucky one or it is a region thing too.
"Ach, don't worry about it" Haha, you are germanized already, Jenna :-)
Yes, insurance is a big deal in Germany but so is insurance betrayal. By seeing documentaries like "Die Versicherungsdetektive" ("The Insurance Detectives") you get the impression that it's kind of a _Volkssport_ here.
I can’t believe you said you loved Emily in Paris
Why?! Hahah
Ich finde jetzt nicht, dass eine krankenversicherung unnötig wäre, vorallem nachdem mein Mann einen Schlaganfall hatte. Aber vielleicht sehen das (Nord-) Amerikaner ja anders...
Kanada hat soweit ich weis eine automatische, staatliche Krankenversicherung.
In weiten Teilen Nordamerikas sind Versicherungen nicht gerade üblich. Du zahlst halt dann, wenns nötig wird, ansonsten eben nix. Zudem sind Versicherungen dort oft sehr teuer, weshalb viele Bürger der Vereinigten Staaten z.B. gar nicht leisten können und oft decken sie auch nicht so viel ab, wie unsere Versicherungen hier.
German beer being so much better only applies to industrial beer. The US and even Canada have very strong craft beer scenes, the whole movement began there, whereas Germany is somewhat restricted by it´s purity law and the conservativeness of it´s beer consumers.
Very true! I’m not a huge fan of craft beer (more specifically the IPAs which are so popular), I’m more of a classic pils kinda girl 😝 (or Altbier)
@@lifeingermany_ it´s a misconception about craft beer, that it´s all about IPAs (that I´m a big fan of) or other exotic styles, because the beer revolution made these styles popular again but there are craft lagers and pilsners as well and even weizen too and they are way better, than even german industrial beer. Speaking of Alt, Uerige, Füchschen or Schlüssel somewhat are "craft" beer, because those are small, family owned breweries.
@@gabortoth3706 for sure! That’s true! There are a number of craft pils that I love too! For me it’s an entirely different experience though. Haha i compare going to a craft beer bar to a tapas or wine tasting vs. Drinking a Königs Pilsener to an all you can eat Chinese buffet haha! I enjoy both!
I particularly like Jever which is wery well hopped and won't give you a headache even if you drink a bit too much of it.
But I like some craft beers and Landbier as well.
Lol i live in germany and i used to have a 6 digit phone number...plus area code of course 😂 might just be because you live in a larger city...
Hahaha yes probably!!! I can’t believe how long they are now 😂😂
There is a special meadow outside the Oktoberfest where many people puke at. It is disgusting.
Oktoberfest itself is just disgusting... but a tradition you can't take away from most Germans, even if they don't even know, why they're celebrating this
When you pick up the phone just say your surname. No 'hello', no 'Frau', no 'hier', surname only. That's the common way.
When you call some kind of customer service or handyman or people you just don't know, say 'Hallo, surname hier'. That's it.
Cheers!
The kind of insurance that you mentioned is ok but I feel it right and irresponsible for the person with the electronic equipment to take it where it can be damaged with water around. Sorry, my thoughts. I take something like this where it could be permanently damaged, it's my own fault not someone else's. Sorry, my opinion.
I still say only hello. If the person doesn't know who they are calling, it's not my problem. I still only answer my cell phone number with hello. Most of the time they will say, Herr Oetter? But at the same time, very few people do have my number. Even when the dentist office has called me before, I still only say hello. They automatically say, Herr Oetter, you have an appointment at 5:30, is it possible you can come earlier? I don't change for anyone. As I said, if they don't know who they are calling, it's not my problem
Eine Privathaftpflichtversicherung ist nun wirklich kein großer Kostenfaktor (40-100 Euro). Wer das nicht absichert hat selbst Schuld. Es ist auch nicht ohne Grund das man bei einer KFZ-Haftpflichtversicherung mittlerweise eine Absicherung bis 75 Millionen Euro wählen kann. Der höchste Schadenfall belief sich auf 46 Millionen Euro.
Zum Thema Krankenversicherung, ob notwendig oder unnötig, in Deutschland und im Vergleich zu Nordamerika kann ich nur jedem diesen Link auf UA-cam empfehlen. Auch für Deutsche ein heilbarer Schock:
ua-cam.com/video/zHcwOgbsBYk/v-deo.html
Na, eine Halbe oder eine Maß dürfte doch nicht das Problem sein. 5,1% Volumen -Alk.
Yippee!!
Would you like a golden glue star or a smurf stamp? 😂😂
I feel the same way with my mobile number. 🤔😦
It's perfectly okay to say, "Hallo?", on the phone. I do that, too. It's a part of german "Datenklauphobie" and "Sandburgenmentalität". Or like that american/bavarian UA-camr Hailey Alexis said: "Germans are coconuts!"
In this context:
To mention your last name in the video is okay for you?
Grüße
( Viele deutsche Worte sind gut für "der" Trainingseffekt. Oder heißt es "die", "den","das" oder "dem"?) 🤔🤔 Who knows.........
It's pretty concerning if you don't know your mobile phone number and floor you live on after 7 years.
Wait. What's the issue with your phone number? Mine isn't that complicated.
Hahaha no issue - just way harder to learn than a Canadian number! In Canada the area codes are for much larger areas, which means you only need to remember a 7 digit # (for landlines or cell phones) here in Düsseldorf my number is 12 digits 🙈
You've learned your phone number? Congrats. I've had my phone number for like 7 years and still can't tell you what it is😅
Hahaha took me long enough too! 🤣
When she said the ground floor is the ground floor every non-American facepalmed
🙈🙈🙈
actually: no. There are regions in Germany who count the ground floor as 1st floor too. And the thing is, you need to know where it is that way. So, well, living in such an area, I guarantee you I ended up in some false floors when I was younger. By now I got accustomed to it, so you just look with which floor the housing starts. You just need to know about it.
@@nationdemon I have seen a LOT of Germany but never found any place, where they call the ground floor 'first floor'.
It's usually titled with 'E' and '1' and so on. But people can get confused with 'Erdgeschoss' and 'Hochparterre'
@@dominichendriks8000 feel free to visit Halle/Saale, as an example. Although it changed a little with newer buildings after 1989. But it is still present.
Still have to laugh, it‘s more normal in Germany to say your christian name and surname afterwards when you answer a call for certain reasons 😜 ... also the credit card issue has certain reasons, like it‘s much cheaper for the retail shop and it‘s debited shortly from your current account, so a better control of your financials. ... and be careful with klarna because they screen your current account transactions, analyze and safe the data. 🤷🏻♂️
Unfortunately the tone quality of this vid is not that good as in other vids from you.
Again : knowing what-when-why ! Oragsm before making love ? Same with the birthday.....
Na ja, Kranken-, Hausrats- und Haftpflichtversicherung braucht man unbedingt, ansonsten zahlt man sich dumm und dämlich!
Hausrat lässt sich eventuell noch darüber streiten je nach Lebenslage, die anderen beiden aber definitiv ein *must have* !! Also mandatory liability insurance for your car here in the EU - you don't want to have an accident with a Ferrari when it's your fault and you have to pay without insurance.
@@ravanpee1325 Hausrat brauchst du, wenn du zur Miete wohnst! Kann ja immer wieder passieren, dass was vom Hauseigentümer kaputt geht, wie z.B. letztens bei meiner Jüngsten. Hat die untere Haustür zu schnell aufgemacht und die Türklinke hat an der Hauswand ein Loch verursacht. Meine Hausratsversicherung hat aber den Schaden bezahlt!
@@kessas.489 Stimmt, dachte im ersten Moment auch eher an beweglichen Hausrat. Dachte, so Fälle wie bei deinem Sohn fiele unter Haftpflicht, da Eigentum des Hausbesitzers? Aber stimmt auch Fenster oder Türen werden schnell sehr teuer
@@ravanpee1325 Leider nicht! Aber Kinder ukter 14 sind allgemein von der Haftung ausgeschlossen, deswegen werden da die Eltern zur Verantwortung gezogen. Und wenn man da nicht entsprechend versichert ist, kann das echt teuer werden...
@@ravanpee1325 Glücklicherweise kannst du hier in Deutschland überhaupt kein Fahrzeug ohne Versicherungsnachweis anmelden
Everybody pukes at the Oktoberfest, no need to be embarrassed ;)
🤣🤣
Or be embarrassed if you don't have to puke since this is a sign you are a bit too used to drinking alcohol. 😁😁😁
Just like me who sometimes called himself "Dr. rer. alc.".😎
@@jensphiliphohmann1876 LOL!
i never show up with a cake to the office on my birthday... maybe because i dont work in a office and dont give a f**k
I worked in workshops and brought Muffins. Because I liked my colleagues.
the funny thing is, once i brought a self-made cake on my birthday to an death metal concert and celebrate with my favorite bands. (i had accsess to the backstage area, so no problem with an cake at an concert)
Warum war es für Dich so ungewöhnlich Deine Telefonnummer zu wissen?
Seine Telefonnummer schreibt man doch auf alle Briefe, Emails usw. und die steht doch auch auf Deiner Visitenkarte! Oder?
und dann wär da noch der Fehler nen Maßkrug als Stein zu bezeichnen...
Germans aren't actually superstitious, they even tend to dismantle anything 'spiritual'. But they LOVE their traditions...cause there're not many left.
To me Germans sometimes seem more like robots than actual humans, programmed for perfektion. They hate attracting attention of any kind and if you do joke's on you. Dressed all the same in tones of black/gray/pastel, wearing the same 3 brands anybody does like some kind of uniform. Overanalysing everything and complaining but no really being able to do anything about it without a lawer. Very bad at communicating: hating small talk but not being able to open up. Always afraid to do something wrong/say something wrong or appear 'wrong' in some way. Therefore they expect you to do the same.
I am German and if I phone someone who just says "Hallo", My Reply wil be:"Guten Tag Herr/Frau Hallo"
Is yr husband deaf or severely handicapped or probabla both ??? 🤔 How can he tolerate the torture of listening to your blablabla even for 5 minutes ???
Your „blablabla“ is far to much, before you make it to the point! 👎🤢🤮
Well you could have said it a tiny bit nicer, but thank you for the tip 🙏